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Nov. 24, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 24, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, folks, greetings to you, music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists on across the fruited plain, your guiding light, Rush Limboy here, revved and ready to go.
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How about Odell Beckham Jr.?
Did you see that catch last night?
That is just simply phenomenal.
These people, they have that kind of ability.
It's incomparable.
If you didn't see the catch that Odell Beckham Jr. made last night, he's a wide receiver for the New York Giants.
You have got to find some way of seeing it.
It looks physically impossible.
One-handed catch, but that's not even half of it.
He was in the corner heading for the end zone on a was an out and an up route, but the pass is way over his head.
And any normal receiver, that pass ended up way, way out of bounds.
Beckham, angling out of bounds, leaps, reaches behind his head, cannot see the ball, extends his right arm, grabs it with one hand, and in midair changes direction, lands on his back in the end zone.
I've never seen anything like this.
I didn't know that physics made what Odell Beckham Jr. did last night possible.
Well, he caught it with three fingers.
That's the thing.
Give you an idea.
His hands are, his fingers 10 inches long, and he's like 5'10, 5'11.
Calvin Johnson, Megatron, is 6'5, and his hands are 9.5 inches long.
So Odell Beckham Jr. has huge hands.
His coach at LSU, Les Miles, says, ah, that's nothing.
You should have seen what the guy was doing in practice.
And NBC last night actually had the pregame camera and the warm-ups.
And he was rehearsing one-handed catch, and they had the catches, and they had the videotape of it.
Man, oh, man, I was just, I've never seen, I mean, I've seen a lot of great catches, but I've never seen anything like that.
And of course, ladies and gentlemen, the women just keep coming forward.
The hits just keep on coming with Bill Cosby.
And, you know, somewhere Bill Clinton has to be chuckling because back in his day, these would just be called bimbo eruptions.
And Hillary or somebody would deal with, I was thinking, you know, all that the PSA, have you seen the PSA with all the players, NFL players telling us no more, there's not going to be any more sexual abuse, no more, we're going to shut it down.
How about Cosby and Clinton cut a PSA like that?
Isn't it about time no more bills will be bills?
No longer will fame and power be excused.
No longer is being a Democrat an excuse.
I mean, that's reality.
As a story in the New York Post, no more, well, you know, no more guys will be guys.
No more bills will be bills as an excuse.
No more bills will be bills.
No longer will fame and power be excused.
And no longer is being a Democrat an excuse.
That's what I ought to say.
Michael Sam made New York Post page six today.
And I've got an idea here, folks.
It's not going to be received well, but I've got an idea.
Michael Sam actually kind of threw the Rams under the bus.
The team had drafted him.
He said, you know, they really never acted like they wanted me.
It was always kind of like a, this is his term.
It's almost like when you bring in a stray dog and you wonder how long it's going to be around, but you never really commit to it, something like that.
And then he goes to the Cowboys and got released there, but he says he would have not done it the way he did it if he had it to do over again.
He wouldn't have.
The only reason he did because he said, and he was able to keep it quiet with his teammates at Mizzou.
But once the media found out about it, he would have preferred to do it that way.
He would have preferred not to come out before the draft, get drafted, tell his teammates, teammates, only too many in the media found out about it.
And so it is what it is.
Katie Perry is saying how she can be at the halftime show at Super Bowl.
How about a gay wedding at the Super Bowl?
At the halftime, a gay wedding, halftime Super Bowl.
I mean, they're trying to combat this spousal abuse business.
I mean, throw it all in there.
Michael Sam, maybe, if he's ready, I don't know.
But it would be, if the NFL is trying to, you know, it's got a lot of PR problems out there.
It really does.
You get players spanking kids with switches, promising to never do it.
What?
I didn't see it.
An ad for a girl quarterback.
I didn't see it.
But I tell you what I did see.
Well, I didn't see it.
I heard about it.
Saturday Night Live did an opening skit last night was one of the best for low-information voters.
The Saturday Night Live opening skit last Saturday night was perhaps the best explanation of Obama's executive action on amnesty and how it's wrong and how it's bad that you could possibly hope for.
It was so good.
Get this.
It was so good.
A comedy show, Saturday Night Live, opening skit, destroying Obama on immigration.
It was so good, the Washington Post did a fact check on it.
A fact check on a comedy skit, ladies and gentlemen.
I mean, that is an illustration of just how far these people in the media are going to go to protect this guy.
To fact check a comedy skit.
That is an illustration for you.
And I got the sound bites of it coming up.
Hang on.
That is an illustration of how effective it was.
And it's confirmed something for me, folks.
You know, I have warned you on several occasions that if the next president happens to be a Republican, the media and Obama are going to not rest tearing whoever that Republican president is apart.
Particularly, if that president tries to unravel Obamaism, if that president tries that, the me and this fact check of a Saturday Night Live skit in the Washington Post, a fact check.
So I'm just telling you now, they are going to do everything they can.
Obama said he's going to stay in Washington.
Remember that?
I don't know if he's actually going to do that, but he said he was going to.
And there's only one reason to stay there, and that's to protect what's happened.
And I'm telling you, the alliance between the media and Obama, I'm convinced now, is even deeper than ideological.
And I don't know how much more deep you can get than that, but it is deeper than ideological.
It is a relationship that I don't think, I think it's unprecedented.
I don't think we've ever had a media in this type of Chuck.
F. Chuck Todd's out there.
You know, the guy that got the job when Jon Stewart turned it down and meet the press.
He's out there saying Obama nourishes me.
What are you doing?
Breastfeeding?
What in the world?
Obama nourishes him.
Yes, F. Chuck Todd says Obama nourishes him.
Whatever this relationship is, it's deeper than ideological.
And I'm telling you, it is going to survive.
And whoever the next, I'm just warning you, whoever the next Republican president is is going to face a media that is even more intense pro-Obama than they are now.
Because what's going to happen after Obama leaves, what's happening now is the building of a legacy.
Obama is going to start building his legacy, and the legacy is going to be only the last two years of the regime, not whatever came before it, because that's a disaster.
And then after that legacy is built, it's going to be phony, baloney, plastic, banana, good time rock and rope.
It's going to be a legacy.
It's going to be fabricated, made up, and the media is going to do everything they can to right it, defend it, protect it, and prolong it.
If that means destroying the next Republican president, they'll do it without batting an eye.
And I am just, I'm just, I'm laying this down now on November 24th of 2014.
I call it, because I'm telling you, well, that means put a prediction note in your calendar and you just wait till it pops up.
Put a calendar event in there for sometime February of 2017, and you'll see.
It won't take long after if the next, even if it's a new Democrat president, even if the new president's a Democrat and tries to unravel some of Obama, I guarantee the loyalty here is to Obama, not so much the Democrat Party, although that loyalty is indisputable as well.
Fact-checking, a comedy skit.
That is the lengths to which the drive-bys will go to protect this guy.
Now, Chuck Hagel, folks, Hegel is not the issue here.
Hegel was incompetent to begin with.
He was only there because he had an R next to his name so that Obama could show bipartisanship or what have you.
The reason that Hegel is gone, I think can be found in a New York Times story today.
You know, Hegel has been raising objections in public.
For those of you in Rio Linda, we're talking about Secretary of Defense, the guy that replaced Rumsfeld.
Well, he didn't, but the last Secretary of Defense you heard of was Rumsfeld.
People in Rio Linda.
So Hegel's former senator from Nebraska.
He's a former McCainite.
I'm sure McCain nourished him the way Obama nourishes F. Chuck Todd.
When I hear the word nourish, I think of breastfeeding.
It is creepy.
It is really, really creepy.
F. Chuck Todd being nourished by Obama.
Ugh.
Anyway, anyway, the New York Times has a story today about Hegel stepping down.
And at the end of the story, maybe the real explanation for why is gone.
The end of the story, they admit that Hegel made the mistake of telling the truth about what it'll take to defeat ISIS.
And he did so in public.
And that is at great odds with Obama's ISIS and the JV team.
ISIS, no big deal.
Obama doesn't care.
The fact of the matter is, folks, Obama's gutting the military and then deploying it for a reason.
He's gutting the military and then stretching it thin by deploy.
We're going to stay.
Did you know?
Did you know that we're going to stay in Afghanistan an additional year?
Do you know that the plan to do that was formulated way before the election?
But did you know that we only found out after the election?
Oh, and do you know because of a document dumped on Friday, all of a sudden, all 30,000 Lois Learner emails have been found?
Yes, sir, Reebob, right on, dude.
Right on schedule, right after the election, all 30,000 Lois Learner emails, which we were told had been destroyed and were irretrievable by that doofus that runs.
I'm sorry, by the guy that runs the IRS.
So Obama does not tolerate.
I'm telling you, this guy does not tolerate dissent.
He doesn't like disagreement or debate, and particularly within his own regime.
He's being slow to react to ISIS even now, which is what Hegel has been out there saying.
That's why Hegel's gone.
In addition to gutting the military and then stretching it thin.
And by the way, why would you do that?
Why would you gut the military and then deploy it all over the place?
Well, if you make it look ineffective, if you can make the military look ineffective, I mean, let's be ideologically honest here.
The left has no love for the U.S. military.
And Obama is, I mean, he's just heading on down the tracks here at full speed.
Here we are, not even two weeks from the election.
Hegel should have never been appointed.
Bottom line is.
He should have never been appointed.
I don't know what he's doing.
He's never been right about anything.
He's kind of like Biden in that regard, except he doesn't make any gaffes.
But he's a straw man now.
That's all he is.
The foreign policy disasters are all Obama disasters.
They're trying to shovel them off on Hegel here.
And the New York Times makes it clear that Hegel was raising some objections to what was going on.
He did that in public at news conference with the head of the Joint Chiefs.
Probably his real crime.
You simply do not publicly disagree with the weakest commander in chief who has no tolerance for opposing views if you want to stay working.
And Hegel did, and he's not working.
He's going to stay on during the confirmation, but it doesn't matter.
Obama's running the show.
And Obama will continue to run the show.
Obama's previous secretaries of state have complained that he's a disaster in so many words.
And some previous defense secretaries, you got Gates and Panetta.
They're all talking about what a disaster the guy is, but Obama can't fire them because they quit.
But he was able to fire Hegel and get him out of there.
So that's that.
At Ferguson, Missouri, do you know the Black Panthers?
Was it the Black Panthers?
So it was the Black Panthers.
Somebody, I think it was the Black Panthers, were caught trying to buy pipe bomb, explosives to build pipe bombs in Ferguson, Missouri.
And of course, they're still waiting on the grand jury there, and everybody's bated breath and not knowing what's going to happen.
And even some of the protagonists in Ferguson are beginning to get honest in their impatience.
And they are saying, we've got the sound bites.
It's all coming up.
They're saying, this isn't about Brown, the gentle giant.
This is about changing the system.
Yeah, that's all it is.
And they expected to be, you know, Molotov cocktailing by now, and they're not because the grand jury can't.
What do you think this grand jury is going to?
These people want to stay alive too.
They know what's going on out there on the street.
People can't figure out why haven't they rendered their decision yet?
Would you?
It was two new Black Panther member parties, or party members, that were caught trying to buy explosives to build a pipe bomb.
Where do you do that at a 7-Eleven?
Where do you buy stuff?
I don't either.
I know Ruth's Chris doesn't have stuff like that, so maybe, no, it wouldn't be a Mexican restaurant.
I don't know where you go to buy stuff to buy, make a pipe bomb where the cops can catch you.
What was that?
Home Depot?
I doubt it.
I got to take a break.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
CBS News has the story on the two Black Panthers, the new Black Panthers, trying to buy the ingredients for a pipe bomb.
Their names are Brandon Baldwin, also known as Brandon Muhammad Sahib Skyhook, and Elijah Wan Davis, also known as Elijah Wan Ali and Elijah Won Brother Ali.
CBS did not include those names.
I wonder why.
Why was CBS?
I mean, the CBS identifies people in the news stories.
Why would they leave that out?
They identified Brandon Baldwin and Elijah Wan Davis.
But Brandon Baldwin is also known as Brandon Muhammad.
I made up the Sahib Skyhook stuff because I like it.
And Elijah Wan Davis, also known as Elijah Wan Ali and Brother Ali.
I just got an answer where you find out how to build a pipe bomb.
I am told that there are several al-Qaeda websites that instruct this, and that there's an al-Qaeda, these websites essentially published a book called How to Make a Bomb from the Kitchen of Your Mom.
Al-Qaeda.
How to Make a Bomb from the Kitchen of Your Mom.
And I would bet you that books like that are getting quite a workout in my native state of Missouri.
All you got to do is go to the Al-Qaeda website to find a book called How to Make a Bomb from the Kitchen of Your Mom.
Anyway, folks, there's also some analysis I want to get into today on illegal immigration, Obama's amnesty, and what it might actually mean beyond the obvious.
So we'll come back with a Saturday Night Live skit that got fact-checked.
Saturday Night Live opening skit.
I think Cameron Diaz was the celebrity guest on Saturday Night Live on Saturday.
Anyway, they did an opening skit that was one of the best deconstructions, the best attacks, the best illustrations of Obama and his unconstitutional executive order on amnesty for the low-information crowd that you would ever want to see.
It was so good, so effective.
The Washington Post did a fact check on a comedy skit.
Let's go to the audio soundbite.
This is three sound bites to incorporate the whole thing.
Here is the first, the set this up.
Obama's being played by Jay Pharaoh, who starts out explaining how a law is made today.
All right, here's the first bite.
If I pass the legislative passed, then I wind up on the path of distance.
Hey, oh, my sweet, my legs.
They were made of paper.
President Obama, what's the big idea?
That bill was trying to become a law.
I realize that.
But you know, son, there's actually an even easier way to get things done around here.
It's called an executive order.
I'm an executive order, and I pretty much just happened.
So in that skit, a legitimate bill just got destroyed.
Obama threw it away, and now he's explaining that an executive order is an easier way to do it.
And a kid says, well, don't you have to go through Congress at some point?
Don't you have to go through Congress at some point?
Oh, that's adorable.
You still think that's how government works?
Don't listen to them, son.
Look at the midterm elections.
People clearly don't want this.
I'll be blackout.
Oh, dad.
Oh, why?
Mr. President, is this constitutional?
Of course.
Presidents issue executive orders all the time.
That's right.
But I could do lots of things.
I'll create a national park or a new holiday.
Or grant legal status to five million undocumented immigrants.
Wait, what?
Yep, that's what you're going to do.
All right.
So you need a low information crowd.
This is excellent the way this is done.
It's hard to follow this without the video.
I understand that.
But there's enough here to follow what is going on.
You've got some people basically making fun of and illustrating Obama and just acting like idiots.
But they think, you know, they've got a civics 101 understanding of how laws happen.
And they're making it very clear that Obama's acting outside that law and doing it very braggadociously.
So here's the final bite.
We're going to take you to court.
We're going to shut down all of Congress Howard Devil.
So many steps.
So many steps.
Well, son, what do you think about the government now?
I think I want to go into the private sector.
Me too, son.
Me too.
So that's the only thing they get wrong there is, you know, Obama's fine where he is.
Anyway, so the thing was apparently so successful that a guy named Zachary Goldfarb at the Washington Post did a fact check on Sunday in the Sunday paper.
Last night, Saturday Night Lives Cold Open mocked Obama's new executive action, shielding 4 million illegal immigrants from the threat of immediate deportation.
To the tune of a schoolhouse rock song, Keenan Thompson dresses up as a bill and explains how Congress passes one until Jay Pharaoh playing Obama pushes Thompson down the Capitol steps.
So a legitimate law gets shoved down the steps, injured and wounded, and just tossed out of the way.
And they go on to say, get this.
The skit got a couple of things right and a couple of things wrong.
For starters, the Post says Obama didn't sign an executive order.
He's taking executive action.
This is unreal.
Fact-checking a comedy skit because I'm telling you they are going to go to the end of the earth to defend and protect this guy.
The relationship the media has with this man is deeper than ideological.
I don't know how to describe it.
I don't know how to characterize it.
But it's deeper than familial.
I mean, I just cannot explain.
I know race is a component, but it is just, really, I've been struggling ever since this fact-check story to try to get a handle on.
I mean, it's right in front of our faces.
We all know this.
But it's deeper than them both all just being leftists, being liberals.
There's far more going on.
The fact-check goes on to say, yeah, Obama's taking executive action into an executive order, in particular by directing Homeland Security to expand programs that defer deportation for classes of undocumented immigrants, parents of U.S. citizens or permanent resident children, as well as undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.
So here you have a fact-check story in the Washington Post demanding that a comedy skit get that deep into the weeds in order to be factually accurate.
And the last line in this piece explains why the Washington Post did the fact-check.
And so what matters most for Obama's action, meaning the executive action, is public opinion and what his successor does.
The Saturday Night Live skit, in that sense, does not help him.
Now, that's why they did it.
That's the last line in the fact-check story.
Listen again.
And so what matters most for Obama's action is public opinion and what his successor does.
The Saturday Night Live skit, in that sense, does not help it.
So we in the drive-bys had to get in gear fast and nitpick this thing to death for him so that it does not hurt him because the Saturday Night Live skit didn't help him.
What?
Are all Saturday Night Live skits supposed to help Obama?
And when one of how many years comes along and doesn't, all of a sudden the sirens go off.
We got to do a fact-check story and we got to discredit a comedy skit.
And it's this line.
And so what matters most for Obama's action is public opinion and what his successor does.
That's what tells me that if the next Republican president, the next president is a Republican, this same media is going to spend more time destroying the new Republican president.
I think just A, I mean, just for being there.
And then it'll get even worse if the new Republican president, say, tries to repeal parts of Obamacare.
If the new Republican president does anything to dismantle Obamaism, the media is going to set out to destroy.
Because they admit right here, what matters most is public opinion and what his successor does.
And we, the Washington Post's Zachary Goldfarb, is admitting here that we're going to get in gear and we're going to save Obama's bacon.
We're going to do what we can to protect his public opinion and we're going to destroy the successor if we have to in order to maintain Obama's legacy that we are now going to start writing and that Obama is now going to start building.
Quick time out, my friends.
Sit tight.
We've got much more straight ahead right after this.
Do not go away.
Yes, that's a good point.
Let me mention one more thing about the Saturday Night Live skit.
Since it was not video, obviously here, There's a character singing in that skit, and that character is portraying a legitimate piece of legislation, a legitimate bill.
And in the skit, Obama throws the bill down the Capitol steps three different times in an effort to get rid of it.
It was a very effective visual of the way Obama looks at legitimately passed legislation.
And again, now, this for the low-information crowd.
Now, if I'm at Saturday Night Live, if I'm in charge there and they are a real comedy show, then this next episode, whenever it is, I don't know if they're going to be live Saturday night or not because of Thanksgiving, but whenever the next live Saturday Night Live is, go after the Washington Post.
They're going to start fact-checking a comedy skit.
Let me ask you, has the Washington Post ever fact-checked anything Tina Faye has done about Sarah Palin?
Well, obviously, no.
So it's patently obvious and abundantly clear what's going on here.
And if Saturday Night Live is a legitimate comedy show, the next time they're up, they will do a bit on the Washington Post fact-checking them.
To the phones, we go, Ohio City, Ohio, this is Philip.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's a real honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
I just had a question.
What would happen if the Tea Party was caught trying to buy components for a pipe bomb?
You know what amazes me about this story is that the original allegation was not made against the Tea Party.
But you know as well as I do that if the Tea Party had been discovered trying to buy pipe bomb material, that's all you'd be hearing about right now.
But the thing is, the Tea Party would never do that.
That's not who the Tea Party is.
That's not what I don't think there's any Tea Party would know where to go to get a pipe bomb material.
Maybe.
I don't know.
But here is the CBS story on this, just so you know.
FBI arrests two men for buying explosives near Ferguson.
The FBI arrested two men Thursday night, accused of purchasing explosives they apparently plan to use during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, according to a law enforcement source, talking to CBS News.
Now, it's kind of confusing here because the original report on this was by CBS News, but they dialed it back.
They tried to make this sound a little less than what it is.
But then Reuters came along and confirmed it.
But you know the interesting thing about this?
CBS News is catching hell on Twitter for reporting this.
CBS News is reporting that two men, and they did not publish their real names.
They did not publish the names by which these two guys go by.
Brandon Baldwin was one name, but his name is actually goes by Brandon Muhammad.
And the other man was Elijah Davis, but he goes under the name of Wajuan Ali.
But CBS didn't report those new names.
Now, Twitter just blew up with criticism for CBS because they dared report.
I mean, they're catching CBS catching holy hell for their first report.
Even though it's accurate, the men who live in the St. Louis area are allegedly members of the new Black Panthers.
They were arrested as part of an FBI undercover operation and intended to use the explosives in pipe bombs.
FBI spokeswoman Rebecca Wu told CBS News the suspects were arrested on outstanding warrants.
And then they edited the story.
And the next day, it ran this way.
The FBI arrested two men earlier this week on firearms charges as part of increased law enforcement presence in Ferguson, Missouri, ahead of a grand jury decision in the shooting death of Michael Brown.
Court documents show that Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Elijah Wand Davis faced charges of making false written statements in connection with a firearms purchase and aiding and abetting.
So on November 21st, today is the 24th for those of you in Riolinda.
On the 21st, CBS reported that they were trying to buy explosives to make pipe bombs.
They caught hell on Twitter.
The next day, they reported the same two guys were arrested on firearms charges, really dialing back the intended severity of what these guys planned.
I mean, that's a big dial back from buying the stuff necessary to make a pipe bomb to being arrested on firearms charges.
And as you see here, Brandon Orlando Baldwin.
No, ladies and gentlemen, Brandon Muhammad is his name now.
And Elijah Wan Davis is Elijah Wang Ali.
They were charged with aiding and abetting, aiding and abetting what?
Now, according to the St. Louis Post to Scratch, Baldwin is also known as Brandon Muhammad.
They published the name.
And Elijah Wan, known as Elijah Wan Ali, or Brother Ali.
St. Louis Post to Scratch published the names, but not CBS News.
We don't know why CBS would leave out such a colorful detail, but they did.
And then Reuters had a similar story the next day in which they talk about the two guys trying to buy explosives and so forth.
So if the Tea Party had done something like this, if somebody had Tea Party been nabbed trying to buy the ingredients for, I don't even want to think about it.
It's an obvious question.
Philip, I appreciate the call.
Thanks very much.
Naked suspect assaults elderly man after falling from airport bathroom ceiling.
I love these kind of stories.
A Boston man faces a laundry list of charges that he allegedly stripped naked, climbed into the ceiling of a woman's bathroom and fell onto the floor and assaulted an elderly man at Logan Airport.
Massachusetts state police say that Cameron Schenk, 26, walked into a Terminal C women's bathroom, took off his clothes, and climbed into the drop ceiling just before noon on Saturday.
He's facing charges of attempted murder, mayhem, assault and battery on a person over 60, assault and battery on a cop, lewd and lascivious acts, malicious destruction of property over $250.
Special distinction for assaulting old people.
Try this headline.
Friends of dead transgender woman horrified when she's presented as a man at her funeral.
Friends of a transgender woman who passed away unexpectedly at the age of 32 were horrified to see her dressed and presented as a man for her open casket funeral.
Jennifer Gable, customer service coordinator at Wells Fargo, died of an aneurysm last month while on the job in Idaho.
Ms. Gable was born Jeffrey, but had been living the past few years as a woman named Jennifer.
Her friends said they were shocked to see their friend with her hair cut short, dressed in a suit for the funeral.
I'm disgusted, said one of her friends on Facebook.
A great and dear friend's mom went to the funeral day, and it wasn't closed casket.
They cut her hair suit on.
How can they bury her as Jeff when she legally changed her name?
They're really ticked off.
She became a woman, but somebody buried her as a man, and that's a profound insult.
And her friends all knew that she'd become a woman, but the funeral turned her into a man for the purposes of the casket display.
Friends of dead transgender women horrified when she's presented as a man.
I don't know how that would happen.
I have no idea how it would happen.
Literally no idea.
Don't even want to go any further with it.
I just thought it was funny.
Rudy Giuliani was on Meet the Depressed yesterday and is catching hell for it.
What did he do?
Well, he just happened to utter some truths about inner city crime that you're not supposed to utter.
And now he's in a little hot water.
I mean, he can handle it, but he's still in it.
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